about Scott Speed

Scott Andrew Speed (born January 24, 1983) is an American race car driver, who currently races in Global Rallycross for the Andretti Autosport team.

In 2006, Speed became the first American driver to race in Formula One since Michael Andretti in 1993, when he made his début at the 2006 Bahrain Grand Prix for Scuderia Toro Rosso. He contested 28 races, before he was fired midway through the 2007 season and replaced by Sebastian Vettel. Speed later turned his career towards stock car racing; specifically NASCAR, where he drove for Red Bull Racing Team, Whitney Motorsports and Leavine Family Racing in the Sprint Cup Series. Subsequently, he moved into Global Rallycross with Andretti Autosport, winning the title in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

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2019-04-25 Straightline speed "one of the best things" of 2019 - Sainz

Sainz has switched to McLaren from the Renault works team but is continuing for a third straight season using the French manufacturer's engines, because McLaren is a customer.<br>Renault's reliability remains dubious but it has made a performance step in 2019, while McLaren also appears to be able to run with less drag this year.<br>Asked by Motorsport.com about McLaren's Azerbaijan Grand Prix ...

After struggling to find a good balance with the car in the opening two grands prix of the season, a breakthrough in the post-Bahrain Grand Prix test helped the Milton Keynes-based outfit make progress in understanding where it had gone wrong before.<br>Having shown promising pace in Shanghai, as Max Verstappen split the Ferraris to take fourth place, Horner says the performance is proof of the ...

One of the traits of the Ferrari last season was strong top-speed performance, but Vettel and Charles Leclerc seemed to struggle in this area in the Australian Grand Prix.<br>Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko hinted prior to this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix that this could be a mix of Ferrari backing off because of cooling problems and being pegged back by closed engine loopholes for ...

Stroll made his grand prix debut with Williams in 2017, scoring a podium in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, before enduring a dismal season last year as the Grove team struggled at the back of the pack.<br>The Canadian has moved to Racing Point for 2019 after his father Lawrence led a consortium that took over the Force India team.<br>Perez says Stroll has surprised him with his speed, but also with ...

New aero regulations designed to help improve overtaking were expected to slow F1's cars by around 1.5 seconds per lap.<br>But eyebrows have been raised during the opening pre-season F1 test at Barcelona with the cars proving to be every bit as fast as 2018.<br>Sebastian Vettel's best time of 1m18.161s from the first day of the test was more than one second faster than the 1m19.333s best lap from ...

Hamilton rode a black Yamaha YZF-R1 bike alongside works riders van der Mark and Alex Lowes earlier this month, the track test overseen by the Crescent team that operates Yamaha's WSBK outfit. “Lewis already did two track days on his bike [before] and the people of his team were a little bit concerned because of his speed,” van der Mark told Motorsport.com. “He was very fast but he ...

Hamilton rode a black Yamaha YZF-R1 bike alongside works riders van der Mark and Alex Lowes earlier this month, the track test overseen by the Crescent team that operates Yamaha's WSBK outfit. “Lewis already did two track days on his bike [before] and the people of his team were a little bit concerned because of his speed,” van der Mark told Motorsport.com. “He was very fast but he ...

The Red Bulls of Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen fill the front row, with title contenders Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel immediately behind them. Red Bull boss Christian Horner fears that the Mercedes and Ferrari could get the jump on his drivers on the long run to the first corner, and Wolff agrees that there could be some drama at the front of the field. “The grid has the ...

The Ferrari driver had gone in to the Austin race on the backfoot, after a three-place penalty for failure to slow enough for a red flag in Friday’s opening practice session left him fifth on the grid. Hopes of a good result evaporated early on when he tangled with Ricciardo, dropping him to 15th, but the nature of his recovery drive to fourth – and the fact teammate Kimi Raikkonen went on ...

Straightline speed performance is essential, even if it means that life can be a bit tricky through the chicanes. It sets the scene for the most outrageously low downforce rear wings you’ll see all season. In fact, for the most part, they’re designed specifically for the famed ‘temple of speed’ and instantly become obsolete after the race. Dueling duo Punching a hole in the air is ... ...

Like sister team Red Bull, Toro Rosso has been well aware that the power deficit it suffers means it has to do all it can with its wings to try to help boost its straightline speed performance. While it did not go as aggressive as Red Bull in terms of the levels of downforce it ran at Monza, the team again opted for a unique DRS design element that has played a key part in helping keep it in ... ...

Ferrari has a slight power advantage at the moment, and its performance has been further boosted by an energy deployment characteristic that allows it to accelerate much better out of corners. That speed edge in the early phase of straights prompted questions from Mercedes earlier this year about the legality of Ferrari’s double battery system, but the FIA has given the Italian team the ... ...

Ericsson's massive shunt occurred at the start of FP2 when his rear wing's DRS flap did not reattach under braking for the first chicane. He slammed into the wall on the left-hand side of the and was pitched into a series of rolls, before coming to a rest and exiting the car unharmed. His teammate Charles Leclerc suffered the same DRS problems and it took a while for Sauber to rectify the ... ...

And with Mercedes in particular left scratching its head over just how much performance its Maranello opposition has managed to put on since Canada, there has been much intrigue about what Ferrari is doing with its engine.Thus far the finger has been pointed at the Scuderia unlocking something on it ERS that the others have missed, such as a battery trick or a use of the turbo, MGU-H ...

Max Verstappen was unable to keep Kimi Raikkonen behind as they battled over fourth place in the closing stages of Silverstone's F1 race, despite Raikkonen making a mistake and running wide at Stowe at the final safety car restart.Verstappen had earlier repelled Raikkonen's attacks by driving around the outside of the Ferrari at Luffield and defending into Copse, but Horner said ...

2018-07-08 Verstappen: "Tragic" speed deficit like racing in different series

Verstappen retired from the race late on with a brake-by-wire failure but had been embroiled in a fight with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen late on.He and Red Bull teammate Daniel Ricciardo trailed Mercedes and Ferrari significantly at Silverstone and even the late safety cars offered them little chance to race the leaders.Verstappen told Dutch TV after the race: "I had to manage the tyres ...

The sweeps of Silverstone make it one of the fastest tracks on the F1 calendar, with the quick right-handers of Abbey at the start of the lap and Copse now flat out thanks to higher-downforce cars and a resurfaced track. Magnussen’s Haas team has been potent in high-speed corners this season but said there is less advantage to be gained in those areas of the British GP track ...

Progress for McLaren has been slow going this year, as the team has struggled to understand an issue that doesn’t translate the performance it is seeing on its simulation data (CFD/windtunnel) to what it is experiencing on track.In recent races, this has led the Woking-based outfit to experiment with different aerodynamic configurations during free practice sessions as it tries to ...

The beauty and wonder of watching Lewis Hamilton express his talent in a Formula 1 car never fades. And it takes multiple forms.In qualifying, Hamilton sets off on a lap. He might already be fastest. He might not. Sometimes the scale of the unfolding achievement dawns immediately, as it did when he demonstrated his awe-inspiring turn-in speed at the first corner of Albert Park this ...

2018-06-23 Red Bull: Downforce gamble couldn't make up for top speed deficit

With the team well aware that its Renault power unit is lacking compared to Mercedes and Ferrari, it elected to trim out Max Verstappen's wing in a bid to not lose out in a straight line.But although Verstappen managed to qualify on the second row – just three tenths adrift of Sebastian Vettel – Horner said that the team was still losing out in top speed term."I think Max is slightly ...

Last month's Spanish GP - the previous F1 race on a conventional circuit - was disappointing for Renault, which was outpaced by 'best of the rest' rivals Haas and McLaren in qualifying.Carlos Sainz then finished a lapped seventh, while Nico Hulkenberg was taken out in the first-lap pile-up.Technical director Nick Chester said the understeer problem was the key weakness of the 2018 ...

The Ferrari driver recovered from a first-lap tangle with Esteban Ocon to finish a crazy race second to Lewis Hamilton, but he thought he was going to have a high-speed accident coming onto the start/finish straight with three laps to go when he clipped the wall in the final kink on the lap.“On the first lap after the restart on the little kink coming to the last part of the straight ...

The Silverstone-based picked up just one point in the first three races of 2018 - but its VJM11 was a standout in Baku qualifying, with both Esteban Ocon in seventh place and Sergio Perez in eighth more than half a second on the team's nearest midfield rival Hulkenberg in Q3.Baku has been one of Force India's best venues since the street track's arrival on the calendar, with ...

Despite switching to Renault engines, McLaren had the worst top speed in qualifying in Australia and Bahrain this year, although fared better in China by getting Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne to tow each other down the back straight.Last year, McLaren had a top speed deficit of 15km/h to the fastest car in Baku, which has four flat-out kinks before the start-finish straight, as both ...

The British team adopted a more aggressive design philosophy for 2018 but has zero points after the first three races of the season.Williams had the slowest top speed of any team in qualifying for China, continuing a trend of being much worse through the speed traps this year than last in both qualifying and the race."This year the ideology changed a little bit," rookie Sergey ...

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